What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
coloratura
Chorus Member Joined: 9/17/04
#0What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 1:53pm
What are some of the best soprano songs in your opinion? I am looking to expand my repetoire. I would prefer serious songs rather than comic pieces. My range (give or take) A below middle C to F (or higher tho nothing is written up there) above high C.
I am not a beginner by any means so level of difficulty is not an issue.
Thanks.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#1re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:07pm
There's a board for audition songs IIRC but..
I don't know if any of these are suitable audition songs; they may be too hard to play or overdone, but here is some MT soprano rep I love:
"Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from Sweeney Todd, of course
"Ice Cream" from She Loves Me (though I'm told it's overdone)
"Is It Too Late?" from My Life With Albertine
"Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance
"Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" from Kismet
"It's a Grand Night for Singing" from State Fair
"It Might as Well Be Spring" from State Fair
Pretty much any female solo from The Light in the Piazza
"The Finer Things" from Jane Eyre - good for a coloratura
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#2re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:20pm
Glitter and Be Gay
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
The Beauty Is
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
coloratura
Chorus Member Joined: 9/17/04
#3re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:55pmKeep 'em coming. I have done some of these. These are not for audtions just for building my repetoire. I mostly sing opera.
#4re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:26pm
Hhave you tried Phantom of the Opera?
"Think of Me"
"Wishing you were Somehow Here Again"
"Angel of Music
Also "Glitter and be Gay" is a great suggestion!
Just because I got the lead doesn't mean you can't be my understudy!:)
coloratura
Chorus Member Joined: 9/17/04
#5re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:28pmyup, done them all. I guess I am looking for some less popular suggestions. Thanks tho.
truffula
Swing Joined: 4/26/05
#6re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:37pmAnything from Gilbert and Sullivan is loaded with soprano songs.
But the work waits! I'm alive at last, and I'm full of joy!!!
#7re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:39pmGirl in 14 G
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
Isabella2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/6/05
#8re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:00pm
much more from the fantasticks
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#9re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:09pmOverdone, but If I Loved You is a great soprano song.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#10re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:18pm
Marian's songs from "Music Man"
Laurie's songs from "Oklahoma!"
Julie's and Carrie's songs from "Carousel"
Tuptim's songs from "King and I"
Eliza's songs from "My Fair Lady"
dkb1390
Swing Joined: 6/8/06
#11re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:06pm
ahhh i love girl in 14G. that's a really awesome, diverse song, because it shows all styles (classical, broadway, jazz).
i swear by the singers musical anthology volume 1. i swear by all the volumes, but the first one really has a lot of gems.
#12re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:08pm
-a little bit in love-wonderful town-
-the beauty is-piazza-
-fable-piazza-
-think of me-phantom
-i believe my heart-wiw
-unusual way-nine
if you can REALLY sing, check Sarah Brightman's Harem, she sings very high in it. Great songs.
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-Felicia Finley-
Updated On: 8/15/06 at 08:08 PM
#13re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:15pmWow, this has been helpful for me too. Thanks, guys!
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#14re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:28pm
All of Magnolia's songs from Show Boat
Initials from Hair [at least, Laura Benanti's version]
#15re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:05pm"Will He Like Me" from She Loves Me.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#16re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:22pm"Soon" -A Little Night Music
TenThousandThings
Understudy Joined: 7/19/06
#17re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:52pm
~ "On the Steps of the Palace" -- Into the Woods
~ "Dreaming, Wide Awake" -- a Jason Robert Brown song, not from a show, that you can find in his anthology
~ "A Call from the Vatican" -- I know you said no comic songs, but it's more sassy and sexy
~ "And This is My Beloved" -- Kismet
~ "One More Kiss" -- Follies
Updated On: 8/15/06 at 11:52 PM
#18re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:02am
"I Loved You Once In Silence" from Camelot
"You Are Love" from Show Boat
"Will He Like Me" from She Loves Me
"I'll Forget You" from one of the many versions of The Scarlet Pimpernel
"How Could I Ever Know" from The Secret Garden
"Once Upon a Dream' from Jekyll and Hyde
hope you can use some of these!
Cheers,
Christopher
www.christopherviolett.com
peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#19re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:17am
Basically any solo by Amalia in She Loves Me. "Dear Friend" is kind of bittersweet. It's beautiful and I love it to death.
Good luck on your repetoire!
No one is alone.
Radioactiveduck
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#20re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/16/06 at 2:04am
Its highest notes aren't really where your highest notes are, but..."You're Daddy's Son" from RAGTIME is one of the greatest songs of all time.
"I'll Know" from GUYS & DOLLS allows you to be a bit more classical and just pretty.
#21re: What are your favorite soprano songs? Need suggestions.
Posted: 8/16/06 at 3:08amMost gorgeous soprano song ever, in my opinion, is "Something Wonderful"
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